Dan Devine

It's been a pretty exciting regular season, and it looks like it ought to be a similarly thrilling postseason push to June's NBA Finals. But amid all the bright, shining Stephen Curry bombs, James Harden stepbacks and Anthony Davis detonations, it's become difficult to ignore the stormclouds gathering on the labor relations front.

A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: Sports Illustrated. Rob Mahoney talks with Zach Randolph about the finer points of low-post positioning, and how a player who has spent most of the last decade and a half viewed largely as a bruiser has built an All-Star career out of precise footwork, sharp angles and all the little things that can make a successful big man.

6th: SI Vault. A very cool collection of some of the magazine's most arresting NBA portraits over the years. Not many slideshows more worth your time than this one, I'll wager.

With six minutes remaining in the third quarter of Monday's game, the Atlanta Hawks led the Milwaukee Bucks by five points, and Kyle Korver was scoreless. With 4:40 remaining in the third, the lead was 16, and Korver had 11. Things escalate quickly in the Highlight Factory these days.

Korver missed his first four shots, all from 3-point range, but finally got unstuck midway through the third. With the shot clock winding down, he took a pitch-back from center Al Horford and stepped into a 30-footer that soared past the outstretched hand of Bucks center and ex-Hawk Zaza Pachulia before finding sweet nylon, getting himself on the board with 5:49 left in the third.

After a missed layup by Milwaukee point guard Michael Carter-Williams, Atlanta pushed the ball up the court, with DeMarre Carroll finding Korver flowing to the left corner. A quick pump-fake allowed a backtracking Buck to breeze past into the crowd, giving Korver a wide-open look at a just-inside-the-line jumper to make it two in a row.

It's been a frustrating few weeks for Marc Gasol. He's seen his Memphis Grizzlies, one of the league's most brutalizing and dominant squads through the first 3 1/2 months of the season, stumbling around .500 since the All-Star break, with in-fighting and locker-room malaise providing the backdrop for avastarrayoflosses that have dropped Memphis beneath the charging Houston Rockets into third place in the Western Conference playoff chase.

We've been waiting for the other shoe to drop since last Wednesday, when Yahoo Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Houston Rockets point guard Patrick Beverley had suffered a torn ligament in his left wrist that could require season-ending surgery. Well, the dreaded footfall came Monday afternoon, courtesy of Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle:

Draymond Green's going to make boatloads of money in restricted free agency this summer. Whether the money comes from one of the many teams flush with cap space eager to add a Defensive Player of the Year-caliber stopper who can also pass and shoot, or from the Golden State Warriors, the league-leading squad for whom he's proven this season he can do all that and more, it's going to come. (Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob has made it clear he expects to go "very likely very substantially" into the luxury tax next year, implying the Dubs plan to match any offer for their starting power forward's services.)

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced Friday afternoon that Durant, the league's reigning Most Valuable Player, will be shut down for the remainder of the season so that he can have another surgical procedure on his injured right foot, his third such surgery in the span of six months. He is expected to resume basketball activities in four to six months, according to Thunder general manager Sam Presti.

"With the focus of this process being aimed entirely on Kevin's long term health and stability, it was the consensus of the specialists team, in addition to a collective decision by Kevin, his representation and the Thunder, that to address the setback of the fracture site, a bone graft procedure would be the most proactive and recommended approach," Presti added.

A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: SB Nation. Nikola Mirotic has been undeniably fantastic for the Chicago Bulls over the past month, but he's still kinda-sorta the fourth big man on a team with two All-Stars and a Sixth Man of the Year-caliber contributor. It might be a good problem for Tom Thibodeau to have, writes Mike Prada, but it's still a problem.

You know how you've always wanted to have enough money to splurge on luxury suites at NBA games, but how you've never been willing to rob a bank to get it? Well, what if — and stay with me here — you were willing to rob that bank?

Sure, you could find yourself cold lamping in the friendliest possible confines of your local NBA arena. Eventually, though, the long arm of the law will wind up hand-checking you straight to the hoosegow. From Alexis Stevens of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: